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Aether
A web-app platform I have been working on for a couple of years, inspired by Domain Driven Design and Event Sourcing. With it I can rapidly design and deploy full stack applications in a decentralized cloud-like environment with lots of useful services such as a blob store, message bus, automatic backup, integrated AI-agents etc.
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Old school PC games
Published 2024-06-10T18:04:00.0000000Z in Gaming
A few of the PC games I enjoyed to most back in the days.
1/10
Deus Ex
2/10
Blade Runner
3/10
System Chock 2
4/10
Heart of Darkness
5/10
Heretic
6/10
Duke Nukem
7/10
Dark Forces
8/10
Age of Empires
9/10
StarCraft
10/10
Half Life
Pastries from Central Europe
Published 2023-12-27T18:07:00.0000000Z in Recipes
Coming from Reichenberg (todays Liberec) and studying in Vienna, my father (and grandmother) brought a lot of recipes with him which we have been enjoying in my family as I grew up. Unfortunately most of these are hard to come by in Sweden as we are totally stuck with cinnamon and cardamom buns it seems. You may occasionally find them in some specialty bakery shop but if you want to rely on having them within reach you will have to make them yourself. Here's a list of my favourites. Recipes will come in separate posts eventually.
1/5
Mohnstrudel
Mohnstrudel is a pastry with minced poppy seeds, with a bittersweet taste. A very simple version you can make home quickly is one with premade puff pastry dough.
2/5
Striezel/Stollen
In my family we (sometimes) make the Christmas-special braided Stollen (we just call it Strietzel) with candied orange peel, lemon zest, rum (preferably Stroh) and more.
3/5
Vanillekipferl
Vanillekipferl is a simple but very delicate and sweet cookie containing almonds and vanilla. Typical Christmas cookie.
4/5
Germknödel
In my childhood we often went on ski trips to Austria in the winter and that's mainly were I have had this steamed knödel stuffed with plum jam, served with lots of melted butter (not Vanilla sauce!) and topped with minced poppy seeds and powdered sugar. Yum!
5/5
Kaiserschmarrn
Also when skiing in Austria you can usually have this treat in some of the mountain huts. Easily shared with others. Not necessarily because you would want to. It's usually made from left over pancakes in my family. Fried in lots of butter and served with for instance plum jam and powdered sugar.
point-n-click
Blackwell series (5 games 2006-2014)
Published 2023-12-27T17:09:00.0000000Z in Gaming
As mentioned before I have played lots and lots of point-n-click games in my childhood, but still do occasionally on my iPad. This series stands out as one of the better (or perhaps the best) point-n-click style adventure game I have experienced lately, with very good narrative writing, voice acting that begins somewhat shaky but evolves and get way better later on. It's an interesting development to follow as all aspects of game crafting very clearly evolves over the series. The creator has also added personal comments you can activate to hear his own thoughts about the process. I recommend you play this series from the beginning, and don't rush it as you likely wish there was more when it ends.
I have played tons of point n click-games during my childhood, mainly on Amiga 500 but later PC and nowadays pretty much only occasionally on iPad. One early memory is the Myst game, which was one of the first CD-games released back in 1993. I only borrowed it from a friend so initially I never played it to completion, but later bought the second game, Riven, and was hooked. Now in hindsight I regard Riven as the pinnacle of the series with breath taking raytraced graphics (still good but low-res) and deeply mood setting audio and music. I also enjoyed the third title Exile quite a lot even though it was not made by Cyan themselves. But after that it never really ticked any boxes for me anymore unfortunately. However please do play Riven and Exile at least. The first Myst is nowadays perhaps best experienced in VR, as the original is pretty much only for the nostalgic kick.
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Riven
2/3
Myst
3/3
Exile
A few old tv-series I have fond memories of
Published 2023-12-27T14:55:00.0000000Z in Movies and TV
1/5
Automan is one of those series from the golden period (1 season 83-84) with a scifi-theme seemingly tailored for me. Guilty pleasure almost.
2/5
Re-watched the first season of Chocky and it was still quite good. Remake please.
3/5
The first two seasons of Sliders are worth watching. Ignore the rest. If you are a fan of episodic sci-fi and don't mind a bit dated 90s special effects you should really give this gem a try!
4/5
The very enjoyable TV-adaptation of the movie series (6 seasons 92-98)
5/5
The V mini-series (2 episodes 1983) may look low budget but is still quite enjoyable if you can overlook the outdated special effects. The acting and plot is way better than any modern adaptation of the same material.
Hot chocolate!
Published 2023-12-27T11:04:00.0000000Z in Recipes
This is my latest refined recipe for hot chocolate (always a work in progress):
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